1. Genesis 1 (c. 4050 BC) and the Flood (c. 2400 BC)
Two pillars of ‘Creationism’ or ‘Creation Science’, a very big industry, may actually be un-biblical. I refer to the notions that (i) God created the heavens and the earth in six days and that (ii) the Genesis Flood was global. Genesis I may instead be a revelation to man about a creation already effected. It seems to be strongly liturgical, not scientific (in a western sense). Paradise (the Garden) was for man what the Temple later became. The Sabbath rest has to do with God taking up his abode in the Garden on the seventh day just as He came to rest in the Temple that king Solomon had built for him (2 Chronicles 6:41). Happily, some ‘Creationists’ now seem to be cottoning on to the idea that the pre-Flood world is still scientifically identifiable, as opposed to the long-held fundamentalist view that the Flood completely erased all previous topography. The world of Adam’s and Noah’s day reached from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (east) to the Pishon and Gihon rivers (west). Possibly, a sea then circumscribed that whole area. The archaeology of the line of Cain has been traced in pre-Flood cities such as Uruk or Unuk (called after Cain’s son, Enoch) and Eridu (called after Cain’s grandson, Irad), with legends associating the Babylonian Noah with Shuruppak. But Ann Habermehl has dropped a bombshell into this whole matter of the geography of early Genesis with her ground-breaking article, “Where in the World Is the Tower of Babel?” (https://answersingenesis.org/tower-of-babel/where-in-the-world-is-the-tower-of-babel/), according to which the biblical land of Shinar is the Sinjar region in NE Syria. This has huge ramifications for, not only the antediluvian geography, but also for the early post-Flood phase.
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For complete article, go to: http://amaic1.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/the-bible-illuminates-history.html
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